- Federalism is a form of government in which sovereignty is shared between separate national and state governments. There are two types, and both forms of federalism have existed at some point in America.
- Dual federalism occurs when the national and state governments are co-equals, but sovereign.
- Cooperative federalism asserts that the national government is supreme over the states.
- The various Framers of the Constitution, as well as the politicians of today, had and continue to have their own different opinions about federalism and how the government should be run.
- Devolution is the transfer of certain powers from the national government back to the state governments. It is a current policy in America.
- The Devolution Revolution began in 1995 when the Supreme decided in favor of state’s rights in United States v. Lopez, in which Congress tried to assert that gun possession in and around schools impacted interstate commerce.
